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How Entrepreneurs Should Tackle Acquiring Investment with KdT Ventures Founder Dr Cain McClary

Nov 14, 2018

Dr. Cain McClary is the founder and managing director of KdT Ventures, a company that helps entrepreneurs start other businesses through early stage capital funding in the fields of life sciences innovation and technology. Cain has personally made first money investments in firms such as Zymergen, valued at over $1 billion, and Firefly Bioworks, which has since been acquired by AbCam. Cain sits on the advisory board of 8VC and previously on the faculty at Stanford University. Cain has a Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) from Tulane University School of Medicine and a Sc.B. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Brown University.

 

Robert Quinn is the co-founder and CEO of Patchd, a company formed on the back of the miracle of Robert having a liver transplant and surviving eighteen cases of sepsis. Patchd has developed artificial intelligence that can predict with high levels of accuracy if someone will get sepsis. He has a degree in Mechatronic Engineering and dual degrees in Biomedical Science, from the University of Queensland and the University of Virginia. 

 

Cain joins me today to talk about the types of projects, companies, and entrepreneurs that receive investment and support from KdT Ventures. He discusses how to approach investment pitches and the key things that entrepreneurs should be aware of before attending one. I also spoke with Robert to learn how Cain and KdT Ventures helped him and Patchd receive investment capital to grow his business.

 

“You can never talk to too many people. The more conversations you have, and the more of an open mind you have during those conversations, the more you will be able to grow and understand the layers of the world.” - Dr. Cain McClary

  

This week on the Supportedly Podcast:

 

  • Cain’s Journey from medicine to early-stage investing.
  • How he raised venture capital to develop frontier computational technologies, machine learning, and artificial learning to revolutionize medicine, chemicals, agriculture, and biology.
  • About KdT and the company’s investment thesis.
  • The types of projects and entrepreneurs that get investments from KdT.
  • Examples of the misalignments that still get investments from KdT.
  • How to get in touch and be noticed by institutional venture capitalists.
  • The points that entrepreneurs fail to make when pitching for investment.
  • The financial metrics, strategies, and competition awareness that entrepreneurs should have before making investment pitches.
  • The support and what it is like to be a company invested in by KdT.
  • Robert’s background, and the miracle that inspired him to found Patchd.
  • Developing an AI (artificial intelligence) that can predict sepsis.
  • How Patchd got paired up with KdT Ventures.
  • What Robert finds so unique and exciting about KdT Ventures.
  • The proactive role that Cain and KdT take in helping Robert and Patchd.
  • The lessons that Robert would like to pass on to other entrepreneurs.

 

“Cain will go to the end of the earth to find a solution.” - Robert Quinn

  

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